How to stop layers from expanding when selecting objects?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
August 12, 2018
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If you have the layers panel open and you select any object on the art board, the layer in which that selected object is in, will auto expand in the layers panel. Is there a way that it wont do that?

layers panel

dpasr

Participant

Did you ever find a solution to this? It's still present in AI 2021, and it's rather annoying when creating assets for export. This is definitely not and ideal user experience. If you manually collapse the layer after AI auto-expands it, you can use the click to select art "button" on the right of that same layer and it no longer auto-expands, which makes it "feel" like a bug.

dpasr

Participant

I just stumbled on the answer immediately after my previous post. Holding Cmd while clicking to select the top layer will not expand the sub layers. So my new workflow is now:

Click anywhere on a blank part of the artboard to deselect all objects
Cmd+Click the top layer, and any other layers I want to export
Add assets to Export

manal shanableh

Legend

From Layers Panel Menu> Panel Options..

Show layers only

Top Level Only

OddlythinknAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thanks but that only hides the thumbnails and really doesn't help.
Let's say all my layers are collapsed. When I select an object that is within a sublayer, the layer expands to show the selected sublayer.
It's annoying when I have hundreds of sublayers within sublayers.